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Peter

OriginGreek
Meaning"rock, stone"
GenderBoy

About Peter

Variation of Panos

2 syllables.

As of September 2026, Peter ranked #187 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #31 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #82.

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Famous Peters

  • Saint Peter Martyr of Verona

    Italian martyr

  • Peter I aka Peter the Great (born Peter Alekseyevich)

    Russian Emperor

  • Peter II Alexeyevich

    Russian Emperor

  • Peter III (born Karl Peter Ulrich)

    Russian Emperor

  • Peter I

    King of Serbia

  • Peter II

    last King of Yugoslavia

  • Peter I and II

    Kings of Portugal

  • Peter I and II

    Kings of Cyprus

  • Peter I and II

    Emperors of Bulgaria

  • Peter I

    III, Kings of Aragon

  • Peter I

    VII, Popes of Alexandria

  • Peter

    Prince of Greece and Denmark

  • Peter Seamus O'Toole

    British actor

  • Richard Henry "Peter" Sellers

    English actor

  • Pyotr Alexeyevich "Peter" Kropotkin

    Russian revolutionary

  • Peter James Crouch

    English footballer

  • Peter Wilton Cushing

    English actor

  • Peter Press "Pete" Maravich

    American basketball player

  • Peter 'Pete' O'Hanlon

    bassist from Irish band The Strypes

  • Peter Andreas Thiel

    American billionaire founder of PayPal

  • Peter Michael Falk

    American Actor

  • Peter Facinelli

    American actor

  • (John) Peter Sarsgaard

    American actor

  • Peter Gene Hernandez

    birth name of Bruno Mars, American pop singer

  • Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townsend

    English musician of The Who

  • Peter Robert Jackson

    New Zealand film director/producer/screenwriter

  • Peter Brian Gabriel

    English musician

  • Peter Bogdanovich

    American film director

  • Peter Lawrence Boyle

    American actor

  • Peter Szymon Serafinowicz

    British actor

  • Peter Kenneth Frampton

    English,American musician

  • Peter Hayden Dinklage

    American actor

  • Peter Henry Fonda

    American actor

  • Peter Onorati

    American actor

  • Peter Alexander Ustinov

    English actor

  • Peter Alexis Shukoff aka Nice Peter

    Youtube personality of "Epic Rap Battles of History"

  • Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings

    Canadian,American TV journalist

  • Peter Lewis Kingston "Pete" Wentz III

    American bassist for Fall Out Boy

  • Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein)

    Slovakian,American actor

  • Peter Tosh (born Winston Hubert McIntosh)

    Jamaican reggae musician

  • Peter Soyer Beagle

    American novelist

  • Peter Dougan Capaldi

    Scottish Actor

  • Peter Jacobson

    American actor

  • Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

    German mathematician

  • Peter Tait

    Scottish mathematical physicist

  • Peter Yarrow

    American singer,songwriter of Peter, Paul and Mary

  • Peter Tork

    stage name of Peter Halsten Thorkelson, American musician of The Monkees

  • Peter Joseph William Debye

    Dutch,American physicist & chemist

  • (Randolph) Peter "Pete" Best

    English original drummer for The Beatles

  • Peter Van Pels aka Peter Van Daan

    German,Dutch boy who appeared in The Diary of Anne Frank

  • Peter Andrew Furler

    Australian Former lead singer of Newsboys

  • Peter DaCunha

    Canadian actor

  • Peter Ognibene

    American child model; twin brother of Caroline

  • Peter "Pete" Zamperini

    brother of WWII POW Louis Zamperini

  • Peter Arne Jöback

    Swedish musician

  • Peter Colbert

    son of Stephen Colbert & Evelyn McGee,Colbert

  • Peter Gilyard

    son of former American actor Clarence Gilyard

  • Peter Cunnah

    Irish musician of the group D,Ream

  • Peter Mark Andrew Phillips

    British royal, son of Princess Anne

  • Peter Allen

    Australian musician

  • Peter Riegert

    American actor

  • Peter Connelly (b. 2006)

    1 year old British boy who died from child abuse in 2007

Peter in pop culture

  • Peter Pan

    fictional character created by J. M. Barrie

  • "Peter Rabbit

    " children's book by Beatrix Potter

  • Peter Parker

    also known as Spider,Man, character in the Marvel Universe

  • Peter “Pete” Brockman

    character in British sitcom “Outnumbered”

  • Peter Jason Quill

    also known as Star,Lord, character in the Marvel Universe

  • Peter Pevensie

    from C.S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" series

  • Peter "Wormtail" Pettigrew

    character from the "Harry Potter" series

  • "Peter

    Peter Pumpkin Eater," nursery rhyme

  • Peter Brady

    middle son on "The Brady Bunch"

  • Peter

    main character in "First Light," a novel by Rebecca Stead

  • Peter “Pete” Beale

    father of Ian Beale in British soap opera “Eastenders”

  • Peter Beale

    son of Ian Beale in British soap opera “Eastenders”

  • Peter Barlow

    character from British soap opera "Coronation Street"

  • Peter Bishop

    character on TV show "Fringe"

  • Peter Clarkson

    antagonist in novel "Ten Things I Hate About Me"

  • Peter "Pete" Brockman

    Dad in British Comedy "Outnumbered"

  • Peter Joseph "Peejoe" Bullis

    character from movie "Crazy in Alabama"

  • Peter Florrick

    character on "The Good Wife"

  • Peter Griffin

    main character on TV's "Family Guy"

  • Peter Hale

    character from MTV's "Teen Wolf"

  • Peter Hayes

    character in "Divergent" series

  • Peter Grant Kavinsky

    main character from "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," "P.S. I Still Love You" and "Always and Forever, Lara Jean" by Jenny Han

  • Peter Garcia

    character in "Sims" series

  • Peter Burke

    character on TV's "White Collar"

  • Peter Graham

    chatacter in "Hereditary"

  • Peter Kirkland

    personification of Sealand in anime "Axis Powers: Hetalia"

  • Peter Malboro

    character in Quebec parody show "Le coeur a ses raisons"

  • Peter Mills

    character on TV's "Chicago Fire"

  • Peter van Daan

    pseudonym for Peter van Pels in "The Diary of Anne Frank"

  • Police Sargent Peter Noakes

    character on series "Call the Midwife"

  • Peter Port

    professor voiced by Ryan Haywood in web series RWBY

  • Peter Prentice

    character from series "The Mindy Project"

  • Peter Maximoff

    also known as Quicksilver, character in Marvel Universe

  • Peter Porker

    also known as Spider,Ham, character in Marvel Universe

  • Peter Petrelli

    character on TV show "Heroes"

  • Peter Hastings

    Spencer Hastings' father in "Pretty Little Liars"

  • Peter Shepherd

    boy character in "Jumanji"

  • Peter the Panda

    Dr. Doofenshmirtz's ex nemesis in "Phineas and Ferb"

  • Peter Bishop

    character on JJ Abrams TV series "Fringe"

  • Peter Nureyev

    character on "The Penumbra Podcast"

  • Peter Jerome

    character on the ABC Sitcom "Soul Man"

  • Peter Lukas

    character on "The Magnus Archives"

  • Peter Ratri

    main antagonist in the manga/anime series "The Promised Neverland"

  • "Peter"

    Song by Taylor Swift featured in "The Tortured Poets Department"

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